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Emergency Physician Provides HIV and Hepatitis C Testing, Counseling to Underserved Communities

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At the time, those who wanted to get tested for HIV had to go to receive an hour of counseling and then wait a week for their results. As the science was progressing into point-of-care testing, Dr. Calderon and her colleagues started testing different options for providing HIV counseling in the ED.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

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However, PCT can be elevated in severe trauma, such as burns or surgery [5,25]. 2022 Jul 11;11(14):2163. Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care tests in acute community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections. 2022 Jan;28(1):13-22. Kinetics & Reference Range: Normal serum levels of PCT are < 0.05